Wednesday, February 5, 2014
SIRS Researcher
I have always liked this resource and have my students in library skills classes use this to find current events and other information. For the class, that I'm currently taking; we are to look up an animal in SIRS Researcher. The info that I found was information about Dogs. There were many articles found so I decided that I needed to be more specific so I chose a specific breed: Border Collie. That topic still gave me plenty of articles to read.
The second question that we are to answer is: Country Facts, Maps of the World and Database Features which are tools found on this database. The Country Facts is spilt into three categories: 1.By Country; 2. By State & 3. Canada Facts.
When I click on Maps of the World, there are over 3000 maps that are detailed, can be printed and used like an almanac.
What I feel is really great about SIRS Researcher is that I don't have to spend extra funds for our library to have current info for everyone to use and inventory it. This database has it all!
SIRS is an amazing resource for all the reasons you mention. Thanks for the good review.
ReplyDeleteJulie